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The Soulful Nature of Change
on December 15, 2014If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow – John Dewey Over the past month, I have weeded (discarded) approximately 4,000…
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Reflections of an Ish-ful Educator
on November 2, 2014Cathy Collins In Peter Reynold’s book, “Ish,” a creative spirit learns that thinking “ish-ly” is far more important than “getting it right.” Hearing Reynolds reinforce that important message in his…
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The Power of One
on October 24, 2014“I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it exists within us…
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Tales of a Tech Gypsy – Design Thinking Through Technology
on October 20, 2014This year’s ACTEM Conference in Augusta, Maine, “Rebooted and Reimagined,” included many excellent sessions on a wide range of informative technology topics, but the session that I found by…
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Opening Doors & Hallways
on October 10, 2014I was asked recently to pull together thoughts as to why I am so passionate about studying technology. I am a digital native, though at my age someone might confuse…
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Are Your Students Research Ready?
on September 12, 2014Our students need to be ready to find, evaluate, manage, and use information in a whole new way. The avalanche of information and misinformation in a simple Google search…
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Featured Speaker Dr. Reshan Richards
on September 9, 2014Next month, I have the honor of being a ‘Featured Speaker’ at the 2014 MassCUE/M.A.S.S. Tech conference. I’ll be doing one session each day. My session
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New School Year!
on September 3, 2014A new school year is filled with excitement, a fresh start, new outfits, school supplies, and new experiences. Teachers have high hopes that their students will enter with a…
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Through the Eyes of a Child- A New Lens
on September 1, 2014I remember sitting in my elementary school listening to what my classmates wanted to be when they grew up. Popular choices were an astronaut, a sports player, a nurse,…
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Tales of a Tech Gypsy – Slippery Slopes
on September 1, 2014“Educational change is not constrained by lack of technology but a lack of sociological imagination.” Diana Rhoten As a new school year begins, and our high school library undergoes a…
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Tales of a Tech Gypsy – AASL Intellectual Freedom Award
on July 28, 2014This is my first blog post in “OnCUE,” and I’m happy to begin this process of sharing ideas about all things tech, library and education-related, on behalf of…
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Providing a MassCUE Online Course
on July 22, 2014MassCUE offered me the opportunity this past winter to offer an online professional development course through their site. Although I had offered online and asynchronous courses before through Moodle,…
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